‘We were trapped like Sardine in the dark’

More than eight million households across Chile were left without electricity on Tuesday afternoon, after the electricity transfer line failed, intersecting electricity supply to much of the Earth.

In the capital, Santiago, the entire underground train system was suspended almost immediately. Thousands of people had to be evacuated and the cells were spelling into darkness.

“We were like Sardin in the dark,” one passenger described at the moment their underground train stopped.

Many of those who were in the cranes inside the cells when the electricity interruption had had to be released by firefighters.

One woman in her 70s was trapped in an elevator between two floors in a building in Santiago.

She told the local media that she had “thrown out the door” to draw attention to her condition, and her screams eventually warned Concierge.

“I’m brave, I told myself” I won’t die here, “she said.

Videos divided on social media also showed the travelers of the metro by using the lamps of their mobile phones to find their way from dark cells.

According to Metro de Santiago, the evacuation of the underworld was completed 90 minutes after the current interruption – but a disorder caused by a break that is spent for many more hours.

150 additional buses deployed in ferry passengers were not even close enough to compensate for the subway suspension, which transported an average of 2.3 million passengers every day.

Long rows formed at bus stops, where passengers became more and more angry when the packaged buses did not stop.

Their number soon switched on workers sent home early because most of the offices were paralyzed by a lack of electricity.

“The power came out at 3:00 pm, so we didn’t have the strength,” said one salesman in Santiago. “People started closing at about 4 or 5pm.”

Traffic in the capital is further disturbed by the failure of several traffic lights.

The truck collided with a car at one transition containing traffic lights, and there were reports of at least another accident caused by a lack of functional traffic lights.

When the grids get worse, thousands of people were forced to walk to their destinations in summer temperatures of about 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit).

One of them, Sharon Ortiz, a 28-year-old waitress, said the public transport system “crashed”.

“I had to work two hours late, I got stuck in the middle of Costanere [shopping centre] And from there I had to walk, “she said.

Some hit the elevators at the back of the truck.

Restaurants and cafes were among the companies affected by the electricity interruption.

Some remained open to walk home a place to rest, but many closed because cash machines, card machines and refrigeration did not work.

Some of the most dramatic scenes took place in a fantasilandy, amusement park in Santiago, where at least a dozen people were stuck at the top of the rollerfish.

Fantasilandia manager said that although the park had safety generators, attractions would not immediately restart for security reasons.

Hospitals relied on emergency generators due to strength.